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“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.” ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.” MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

“Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.” QUEEN ELIZABETH I OF ENGLAND

“Friendship is a sheltering tree.” SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

“In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.” EPICURUS

“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”

“Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile.” WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

“A man's house is his castle.” SIR EDWARD COKE

“Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.” FRED ROGERS

“There are as many opinions as there are people: each has his own view.” TERENCE

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” C.S. LEWIS

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” EPICTETUS

“My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind.” THOMAS JEFFERSON

“A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.” ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY

“All art is but imitation of nature.” SENECA THE YOUNGER

“Leave no stone unturned.” EURIPIDES

“The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom—these are the pillars of society.” HENRIK IBSEN

“All things are difficult, before they are easy.” THOMAS FULLER

“A picture is a poem without words.” QUINTUS CORNIFICIUS

“A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit.” DESIDERIUS ERASMUS

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” ARISTOTLE

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Where there is devotional music, God with his grace is always present.” BACH

“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand in the cold.” ARISTOTLE

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” AESOP

“Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” IBN BATTUTA

“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” RENÉ DESCARTES

“A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.” ANDRÉ MAUROIS

“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.” CHARLES CALEB COLTON

“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.” CICERO

“If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.” CONFUCIUS

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

“If we encountered a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read.” RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.” ARISTOTLE

“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.” HERODOTUS

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

“Better to have one friend of great value, than many friends who are good for nothing.” ANACHARSIS

“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.” FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” ANNE FRANK

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” THOMAS EDISON

“Character, not circumstances, makes the man.” BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” J. R. R. TOLKIEN

“We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.” THOMAS AQUINAS

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” J. R. R. TOLKIEN

“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.” CONFUCIUS

“Many believe—and I believe—that I have been designated for this work by God.” MICHELANGELO

“I do not love strife, because I have always found that in the end each remains of the same opinion.” CATHERINE THE GREAT

“Travel makes one modest: one sees what a tiny place one occupies in the world.” GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.” BLAISE PASCAL

“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” EDMUND BURKE

“Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.” THALES OF MILETUS

“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.” JOHN LOCKE

“Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.” ARISTOTLE

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” SAMUEL JOHNSON

“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.” WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

“To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child.” CICERO

“Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.” DEMOCRITUS

“He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.” EPICURUS

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.” MARK TWAIN

“For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.” GEORGE WASHINGTON

“If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” SAMUEL ADAMS

“It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.” THOMAS JEFFERSON

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” FRANCIS BACON

“You were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.” DANTE ALIGHIERI

“Happiness is secured through virtue.” THOMAS AQUINAS

“Make it your business to know yourself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.” MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humor.” CHARLES DICKENS

“Kindness is invincible, provided it’s sincere—not ironic or an act.” MARCUS AURELIUS

“The meaning of life is to help others find the meaning of theirs.” VICTOR FRANKL

“I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.” HIPPOCRATES

"A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears." MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

“All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy.” RAINER MAR

“There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.” ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

“Our greatness is only bounded by our horizons.” MICHELANGELO

“I keep good company, read good books, love good things, and cultivate soul and body as faithfully and wisely as I can.” LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” ALBERT EINSTEIN

“Not all those who wander are lost.” VICTOR FRANKL

“Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'” LAO TZU

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” NAPOLEON HILL

“If the people have no faith in their rulers, there is no standing for the state.” CONFUCIUS

“Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the Gods.” SOCRATES

“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.” MARY SHELLEY

“The most sacred of the duties of a government is to do equal and impartial justice to all citizens.” THOMAS JEFFERSON

“For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“What man actually needs is not a tension-less state, but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.” VIKTOR FRANKL

“Knowing what’s right doesn’t mean much, unless you do what’s right.” THEODORE ROOSEVELT

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.” NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

“I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.” JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” J.R.R. TOLKIEN

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul
and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.” EMILY DICKINSON

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” ERNEST HEMINGWAY

“There can be no true merit in speaking, unless what is said is thoroughly understood by him who says it.” CICERO

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do." EDGAR DEGAS

“He that will not sail until all dangers are over, will never put to sea.” THOMAS FULLER

“ …those who seek for the best kind of song and music ought not to seek for that which is pleasant, but for that which is true.” PLATO

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” WILLIAM FAULKNER

“Above all, don't lie to yourself.” FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

“Duty is ours, results are God's.” JOHN ADAMS

“We can only hope that all our friends and families can live long lives, looking at the moon together, across a thousand miles.” SU DONGPO

"There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues are created." WINSTON CHURCHILL

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” CONFUCIUS

“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” ERNEST HEMINGWAY

“In the woods, we return to reason and faith.” RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far" THEODORE ROOSEVELT

"Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare." HARRIET MARTINEAU

“As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.” ALBERT SCHWEITZER

“The safety of the people shall be the Highest Law.” MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO

“I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.” GEORGE WASHINGTON

“Fashion follows function.” SIDNEY SWARTZ, co-founder, Timberland

“If the bee disappeared off the face of the Earth, man would only have four years left to live.  No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more man.” ALBERT EINSTEIN

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” ALDOUS HUXLEY

 

"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer." WINSTON CHURCHILL

 

“Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.” GEORGE WASHINGTON

 

"Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head." ANDY ROONEY

 

“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.” SAINT AUGUSTINE

 

"Grief does not change you, it reveals you." JOHN GREEN

 

“Find your own way and God will help you!” JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

 

“A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought—they must be earned.” NAVAL RAVIKANT

 

“Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.” LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

 

"We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems." JOHN W. GARDNER

 

“The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.” ALAN SAPORTA

 

“The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.” SENECA

 

“Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.” AGATHA CHRISTIE

 

“One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.” Paulo Coelho

 

"Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad." THOMAS PAINE

 

"Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters." MARGARET PETERS

 

"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can." PAUL TOURNIER

 

“Remember how long you’ve been putting this off, how many extensions the gods gave you, and you didn’t use them.” MARCUS AURELIUS

 

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

 

“It’s not about what someone can do for you, it’s who and what the two of you become in each other’s presence.” RONALD SHARP

 

“Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together—just the two of you." EB WHITE

 

“You’re never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.” FLORA RHETA SCHREIBER

 

"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save." JOHANN GEORG VON ZIMMERMANN

 

“Any observant local knows more than any visiting scientist. Always. No exceptions.” ROGER PAYNE

 

“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.” HELEN KELLER

 

"When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up." L. M. MONTGOMERY

 

“Do something well, and that is quickly enough.” BALTASAR GRACIÁN

 

"Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation." CICERO

 

"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility." PETER DRUCKER

 

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do." ANDREW CARNEGIE

 

"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes." PETER DRUCKER

 

"Where no gods are, specters rule." NOVALIS

 

“Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.” THOMAS PAINE

 

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.” ANDREW CARNEGIE

 

"Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches." CICERO

 

“When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.” TACITUS

 

“I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.” THOMAS PAINE

 

“The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.” Cicero

 

“Remember, upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.” Alexander the Great

 

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” ABRAHAM LINCOLN

 

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” Winston Churchill

 

“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.” GEORGE WASHINGTON

 

"A goal is a dream with a deadline." NAPOLEON HILL

 

"Don't wait. The time will never be just right." NAPOLEON HILL

 

"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle." NAPOLEON HILL

 

"Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again." ANNE FRANK

 

“The best climber in the world is the one who's having the most fun.” Alex Lowe

 

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” MAYA ANGELOU

 

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently." MAYA ANGELOU

 

"In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit." ANNE FRANK

 

"I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near." MARGARET THATCHER

 

"Saying nothing sometimes says the most." EMILY DICKINSON

 

"Watch your thoughts, for they will become actions. Watch your actions, for they'll become... habits. Watch your habits for they will forge your character. Watch your character, for it will make your destiny." MARGARET THATCHER

 

"Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know." CULLEN HIGHTOWER

 

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER

 

"Fortune helps the brave." TERENCE

 

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." MARGARET THATCHER

 

“Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them.” L. M. MONTGOMERY

 

"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." SAMUEL JOHNSON

 

"Flowers grow out of dark moments." CORITA KENT

 

"That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along." MADELEINE L'ENGLE

 

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience." OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR.

 

"Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light." JENNIE JEROME CHURCHILL

 

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." RALPH WALDO EMERSON

 

"It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear." DICK CAVETT

 

“Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.” J.R.R. TOLKIEN

 

"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done." MARIE CURIE

 

"He who is brave is free." LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA

 

"I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go." LANGSTON HUGHES

 

"I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.” THEODORE ROOSEVELT

 

"Against criticism we can neither protect nor defend ourselves; we must act in despite of it, and gradually it resigns itself to this." JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

 

“The test of a student is not how much he knows, but how much he wants to know.” ALICE WELLINGTON ROLLINS

 

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” CORMAC MCCARTHY

 

"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing." RALPH WALDO EMERSON

 

“Worst wheel on the wagon makes the most noise.” RONALD REAGAN

 

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world–not even our troubles." CHARLIE CHAPLIN

 

"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." WILLIAM JAMES

 

“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong even if everyone is for it.”  William Penn

 

“Act as if what you do makes a difference, it does.”  William James

 

“The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.” JOHN ADAMS

 

James 2:17 “Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.”

 

"There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves." ROBERT QUILLEN

 

"As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others." AUDREY HEPBURN

 

"Learn as much by writing as by reading." LORD ACTON

 

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work very hard to remain stupid.”  BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

 

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." ALVIN TOFFLER

 

“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.” HENRY DAVID THOREAU

 

"Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy." ISAAC NEWTON

 

“Greatness is not intelligence. Greatness comes from character. And character isn’t formed out of smart people, it’s formed out of people who suffered.” JENSEN HUANG

 

“Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.” BRIAN TRACY

 

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” MAHATMA GANDHI

 

“Always do what you are afraid to do.” RALPH WALDO EMERSON

 

"Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome." ARTHUR ASHE

 

"Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble." JOHN MADDEN

 

"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." LEONARDO DA VINCI

 

"Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great." JOHN L. MOTLEY

 

"People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things." EDMUND HILLARY

 

"He who would travel happily must travel light." ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY

 

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” WB YEATS

 

“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”  THEODORE ROOSEVELT

 

"Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend." JULES RENARD

 

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul." HENRY WARD BEECHER

 

"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it." FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

 

“It doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optismism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself” LUCILLE BALL

 

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is." ELBERT HUBBARD

 

"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest." THOMAS MOORE

 

"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." JOHN MUIR

 

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." -Confucius

 

"It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life." QUEEN CHRISTINA

 

“Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.” LARRY PAGE

 

"Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself." -James Allen

 

"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow." -Dr. Robert H. Goddard

 

"Let no one out prepare you." -David Brooks

 

"The same days that I don't make people laugh, are the same days I don't sell anything either." -John Yates

 

"The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them." AMELIA BARR

 

"Those who are the hardest to love, are the ones who need it the most." -Dan Millman

 

“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.” NELSON MANDELA

 

"Everyone is self made, only successful people are willing to admit it." -Tom Bissmeyer

 

"You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is." -Will Rogers

 

“Give the world the best you have, and the best will come to you.” MADELINE BRIDGES

 

"Your dream is not for sale." -Craig Valentine

 

"I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure." LAWANA BLACKWELL

 

"Argue for your limitations and that is what they become." -Richard Bach

 

“Nothing can be done except little by little." CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

 

"Interesting, I think there is one thing that has killed more dreams, have kept more people from accomplishing more goals than death itself, and that's a person's concern about what others think." -Charles Henderson

 

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do and liking how you do it." -Maya Angelou

 

“The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else." MARTINA NAVRATILOVA

 

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." -Judy Garland

 

“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” RALPH WALDO EMERSON

 

"Do what you do, do it the best way you know how." -Mike Rayburn

 

"Don't concentrate on making a lot of money. Concentrate on being the kind of person people want to do business with." -Patricia Fripp’s father

 

“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” J.K. ROWLING

 

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -Dr. Seuss

 

“Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.” ROY T. BENNETT

 

“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.” – Marcus Aurelius

 

“If everyone is thinking alike then no one is thinking.”  Benjamin Franklin

 

"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way." BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

 

"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." -Aristotle

 

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” Henry David Thoreau

 

"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under the lights." -Muhammed Ali

 

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way.  If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”- Jim Rohn

 

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”- Enzo Ferrari

 

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”-  Plutarch

 

"Just remember, when you think all is lost, the future remains." -Dr. Robert H. Goddard

 

"Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you." Harold Bloom

 

“Whatever you dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

"When was the last time you did something for the first time?" -John Maxwell

 

 “To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order. To put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order, to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.” - Confucius

 

"The best revenge is massive success." -Frank Sinatra

 

"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously." HENRY KISSINGER

 

"What's trapped inside you is eating you alive." -Charles Henderson

 

"There are two ways to look at life: nothing is a miracle - everything is a miracle." -Albert Einstein

 

"Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting." WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD

 

“If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.” GEENA DAVIS

 

"Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace" AMELIA EARHART

 

"It would probably amaze a lot of people if they knew the inside story of a lot of 'rags to riches' entrepreneurs lives as I do. To discover that just about the only reason for their meteoric success is simply getting into motion, before they were ready." -Dan Kennedy

 

"A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people." -Will Rogers

 

"Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize." HENRY JAMES

 

"Word of encouragement seldom fall on deaf ears." -Darren LaCroix

 

"Those who would accomplish little sacrifice little; they who would achieve much sacrifice much; they who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly." -James Allen, As a Man Thinketh, 1902

 

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." -J.K. Rowling

 

"Walking is man's best medicine." HIPPOCRATES

 

“Earth has no sorrow that earth cannot heal.” JOHN MUIR

 

"Success is never final, failure is never fatal." -Coach John Wooden

 

"It is not a simple matter to differentiate unsuccessful from successful experiments. Most work that is finally successful is the result of a series of unsuccessful tests in which difficulties are gradually eliminated." -Dr. Robert H Goddard

 

"Discipline is not what you do to yourself, it's what you do for yourself." -Lou Holtz

 

"A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed." -Henrik Ibsen

 

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that's all." -Oscar Wilde

 

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.” JOHN LE CARRE

 

"The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth" D. H. LAWRENCE

 

“Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.” JOHN DRYDEN

 

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising ever time we fall." -Confucius

 

“The shortest answer is doing the thing.” ERNEST HEMINGWAY

 

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan." -Eleanor Roosevelt

 

"If you are going through hell, keep going." -Winston Churchill

 

"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

 

"Don't let what you can't do stop you from what you can do." -John Wooden

 

"I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it." -Este´e Lauder

 

"Your actions speak so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." WAYNE DYER

 

"I always entertain great hopes." ROBERT FROST

 

"People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news." A. J. LIEBLING

 

"Be silent, or let your words be worth more than silence." –Pythagoras

 

"All the physical comes from the mental." -Clara Huges, Six Time Gold Medalist

 

"Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him." BAYARD TAYLOR

 

“Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.” ROY T. BENNETT

 

"The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave." THOMAS JEFFERSON

 

"Worry is interest paid on debt, not yet incurred." –Unknown

 

"Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of changing moods." -C.S. Lewis

 

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self." CHARLES DICKENS

 

"There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

 

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus on the light." -Aristotle Onassis

 

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired." JULES RENARD

 

"Failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it." HANK AARON

 

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." –Buddha

 

"If you can dream it, you can do it." -Walt Disney

 

"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value." CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER

 

"All great achievements require time." -Maya Angelou

 

“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.” HENRY DAVID THOREAU

 

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." -Mark Twain

 

"Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable." -Peter F. Drucker

 

"Either you run the day or the day runs you." JIM ROHN

 

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." -Malcolm Forbes

 

"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it." RALPH WALDO EMERSON

 

“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire." -Ferdinand Foch

 

"One cannot grow fine flowers in a thin soil." VIRGINIA WOOLF

 

"The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas." ALFRED WHITNEY GRISWOLD

 

"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else." MARVIN GAYE

 

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." RALPH WALDO EMERSON

 

"The greatest thing you can give someone is hope." -Daniel 'Rudy' Reuttiger

 

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it." -Albert Einstein

 

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." -Chinese Proverb

 

"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind." SAMUEL JOHNSON

 

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." - Dalai Lama

 

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort." FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

 

"Tell me what you say you want. Show me one week of your life and we will both know if you will achieve it." -Patricia Fripp

 

"Of all possessions a friend is the most precious." HERODOTUS

 

"Each action you take is like a vote for the person you want to become." -James Clear

 

"I learn something every time I go into the mountains." MICHAEL KENNEDY

 

"We can not do all the good that the world needs, but the world needs all the good you can do." -Jana Stanfield

 

“There was a little voice in my head: ‘No matter what, you have to keep fighting, keep going, no matter how bad you feel you just have to know that you’re capable of,’” Ilia Malinin

 

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." ALBERT EINSTEIN

 

"It's a dangerous business going out your front door." J. R. R. TOLKIEN

 

"Perseverance, secret of all triumphs." VICTOR HUGO

 

"Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out." ROBERT COLLIER

 

”I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.“ SOCRATES

 

“The best mirror is an old friend.” GEORGE HERBERT

 

“When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world.” NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

 

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone." JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

 

"Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child." -Ron Wild

 

"If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought." -Peace Pilgrim

 

"It has often proved true that the dream of yesterday is the hope of today, and the reality of tomorrow." -Dr. Robert Goddard

 

"I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had at hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm." -Henry Truman

 

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." -Harriet Tubman

 

"Are you practicing to improve or to reinforce bad habits? In reality, practice makes permanent." -Patricia Fripp

 

"Any jackass can kick down a barn. It takes a carpenter to build one." -Sam Rayburn "If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad." -Denis Waitley

 

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." -Winston Churchill

 

"The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize." -Richard Monckton Milnes

 

"Do or do not, there is no try." –Yoda

 

"We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent." RUTH HANDLER

 

"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before." -Polybius

 

“The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.” CHARLES KETTERING

 

“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.” FRANK HERBERT

 

"If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?" -Maya Angelou

 

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive." C.S. LEWIS

 

"If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else." -Yogi Berra

 

"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time." CHARLES KETTERING

 

“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.” - Aristotle

 

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

 

“Logic will take you from A to B.  Imagination will take you everywhere.” - Albert Einstein

 

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." -Robert Collier

 

"There were guys who were better actors, better looking, but no one had more tenacity." -Paul Newman

 

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” HENRY DAVID THOREAU

 

"Habits are like train tracks. They take a long time to put in place, but once you do, they will take you anywhere you want to go." -Patricia Fripp

 

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.” G. MICHAEL HOPF

 

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money." MARGARET THATCHER

 

"The Man in the Arena" It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."" -Theodore Roosevelt

 

"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars." WALT WHITMAN

 

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put a foundation under them." -Henry David Thoreau

 

"He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself" NIETZSCHE

 

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." -Wayne Gretzky

 

There are three things we all should do every day. … Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think, you should spend some time in thought. And number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears. … If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. – Jim Valvano

 

"Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases." -Jeremy Collier

 

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live." JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

 

"The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed." -Richard Brinsley Sheridan

 

"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking." VOLTAIRE

 

"Every artist was first an amateur." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. " ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

 

"The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame." -Henry Longfellow

 

"You can only truly be accomplished at something you love. Don’t make your money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you." -Maya Angelou

 

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." -Thomas Jefferson

 

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD

 

"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go." CAROL BURNETT

 

"A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all." -Rita Mae Brown

 

"When I began my journey to learn how to make people laugh, I did not have brains, talent, connections, or money. All I had was persistence. Turns out that's all you need." -Darren LaCroix

 

"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business." MICHAEL J. FOX

 

"Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain." MARK TWAIN

 

"Every adversity, every failure, and heartache, carries with it the seed of equivalent or greater benefit." -Napoleon Hill

 

"Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free -- and worth a fortune." -Sam Walton

 

"You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might." HENRY DAVID THOREAU

 

"A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song." -Maya Angelou

 

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." HARRIET TUBMAN

 

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt." -William Shakespeare

 

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” GEORGE ORWELL

 

"Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!" -Jean Sibelius

 

"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these." -Dr. Robert H. Goddard (American rocket engineer 1882-1945)

 

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it." THEODORE ROOSEVELT

 

"Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -Thomas Edison

 

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ANNE FRANK

 

"To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?" KATHARINE GRAHAM

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"Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the past and present are certain to miss the future." -John F. Kennedy

 

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." -Benjamin Franklin

 

"There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway." -Mark Burnett

 

"If you don't risk anything, you risk even more." -Erica Jong

 

"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's." -Billy Wilder

 

"Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve!" -Andrew Carnegie

 

“What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven’t even happened yet.” ANNE FRANK

 

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." -Abraham Lincoln

 

"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal." -Albert Pine

 

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

 

''Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.'' ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

 

"If you take away my struggle, you take away my growth." -Darren LaCroix

 

"I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. " CALVIN COOLIDGE

 

"These are the days that must happen to you." WALT WHITMAN

 

"The distance between you and your dream is called ‘Sacrifice.'" -Dananjaya Hettiarachchi

 

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there" -Will Rogers

 

"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." -Sir Winston Churchill

 

"There's a lot of blood, sweat and guts between dreams and success." BEAR BRYANT

 

"It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then." LEWIS CARROLL

 

"Don't find fault, find a remedy." -Henry Ford

 

"Everybody wants a gold medal. Few people want to train like an Olympian." -James Clear

 

"Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

 

"The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave." RONALD REAGAN

 

"To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often." WINSTON CHURCHILL

 

"Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplished it; once realized, it becomes commonplace." -Dr. Robert Goddard

 

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." DOLLY PARTON

 

"Freedom is lost gradually from uninterested, uninformed, and uninvolved people." Thomas Jefferson

 

"A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants." JOSEPH ADDISON

 

"What would you dare to dream if you knew you wouldn't fail?" -Brian Tracy

 

"If it is to be, it is up to me." –Anonymous

 

"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone." RALPH WALDO EMERSON

 

"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire." RICHARD M. NIXON

 

"I don't know what the secret to success is, but I can give you a guaranteed failure, try to please everyone." -John D. Rockefeller

 

"Heroes always have their scars. Some you can see, some you read about later on." GEORGE FOREMAN

 

"Action is the antidote to despair." JOAN BAEZ

 

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.” MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

 

"The mighty oak is just a nut that held its ground." –Unknown

 

"If you hear a voice within you saying, 'you are not a painter,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." -Vincent Van Gogh

 

"Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity." PAUL GOODMAN

 

WORDS OF WISDOM "Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles." ELIZABETH ASTON

 

“Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.” THOMAS JEFFERSON

 

"Goodness is the only investment that never fails." HENRY DAVID THOREAU

 

WORDS OF WISDOM “The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” ERNEST HEMINGWAY

 

"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things." JOHN BURROUGHS

 

“What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” VERN MCLELLAN

 

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better person." BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

 

"Luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it." DENZEL WASHINGTON

 

"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value." CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER

 

“Two things are infinite : the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe.  But that might just be me being stupid.”  Albert Einstein

 

“The secret to success is being the person who other people want to see succeed.  It’s more important than talent, brains, or luck.”  Dick Parsons

 

"Remember, George: no man is a failure who has friends." CLARENCE

 

"He who would travel happily must travel light." ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY

 

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." BEVERLY SILLS

 

"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." SCOTTISH PROVERB

 

"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." LEONARDO DA VINCI

 

“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.” VICTOR HUGO

 

"The highest of distinctions is service to others." KING GEORGE VI

 

"It always seems impossible until it's done." NELSON MANDELA

 

“When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.” MELANIE BENJAMIN

 

“The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.” PABLO CASALS

 

"There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit." RONALD REAGAN

 

"Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working." OSCAR WILDE

 

“The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.” HERMANN HESSE

 

"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life." BETTE DAVIS

 

"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life." WILLIAM MORRIS

 

“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.” RONALD REAGAN

 

“The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding it." CHARLIE MUNGER

 

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” EARL NIGHTINGALE

 

“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems, and your preparation, and your habits.”  Crimson Cliffs head football coach Wayne Alofipo

 

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming.”  Robert Louis Stevenson

 

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act.  The rest is merely tenacity.”  Amelia Earhart

 

“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds.  A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”  Clive James

 

“Be a Fountain, not a drain.”  Rex Hudler

 

“The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.” NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

 

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." THEODORE ROOSEVELT

 

"A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality." JOHN F. KENNEDY

 

"No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character." RALPH WALDO EMERSON

 

“Passion is the genesis of genius.” GALILEO GALILEI

 

"Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again." ANNE FRANK

"Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it." MIKE TYSON

 

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." Khalil Gibran

 

"Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid." RONALD REAGAN

 

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." HELEN KELLER

 

“Money is like manure.  It’s not worth a thing unless it's spread around, encouraging young things to grow.  THORNTON WILDER

 

"Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free." RED

 

“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” THOMAS JEFFERSON

 

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” RUDYARD KIPLING

 

"The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it." LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA

 

''Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.'' TRUMAN CAPOTE

 

"Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return." OG MANDINO

 

“I call them diamonds, the good that comes out of every pressure situation” FAWN WEAVER

 

“The perfect is the enemy of the good.  Sometimes you have to balance your ideals out with what's practical and pragmatic."  JOHN MACKEY

 

"It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default." J.K. ROWLING

 

“Wealth among traditional people is measured by having enough to give away.” Robin Wall Kimmerer / Braiding Sweetgrass

 

"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials." SENECA

 

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

 

"What is once well done is done forever." HENRY DAVID THOREAU

 

"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." MICHELANGELO

 

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." ABRAHAM LINCOLN

 

"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?" JOHN WOODEN

 

“You become what you give your attention to” EPICURUS

 

“The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.” EPICURUS

 

"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

 

"Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold." THOMAS JEFFERSON

 

“Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.” ROY T. BENNETT

 

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." LEWIS B. SMEDES

 

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." DALE CARNEGIE

 

"There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it." GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

 

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO

 

"Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing." WILT CHAMBERLAIN

 

"It all comes to this: The simplest way to be happy is to do good." HELEN KELLER

 

"One always has time enough, if one will apply it well." JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

 

"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is, what a man does with what happens to him." ALDOUS HUXLEY

 

"Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn" ALBERT EINSTEIN

 

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou

 

"Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well." PHILIP STANHOPE

 

"Remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." EPICURUS

 

“We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can’t be solved, worrying will do no good.” HEINRICH HARRER

 

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.” JOHN STEINBECK

 

"Insufficient facts always invite danger." SPOCK

 

"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it." JOHN RUSKIN

 

"A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it." JEAN DE LA FONTAINE

 

"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something." WILSON MIZNER

 

"The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk." CICERO

 

"When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you." WALTER PAYTON

 

“You must be prepared to work always without applause.” ERNEST HEMINGWAY

 

"People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones." CHARLES KETTERING

 

“Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.” HENRY DAVID THOREAU

 

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ALBERT EINSTEIN

 

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” THOMAS EDISON

 

“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.” PETER DRUCKER

 

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.” WINSTON CHURCHILL

 

"Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think." DALE CARNEGIE

 

''And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.'' JOHN STEINBECK

 

“Dark clouds cannot hide the sun forever. One day, they will clear and true light will shine through.” AMISH TRIPATHI

 

“The greatest chapters in history always begin with risk, and the same is true with the chapters of your life.” MARK BATTERSON

 

"The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom." LADY BIRD JOHNSON

 

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work." ROBERT FROST

 

“Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.” RUDYARD KIPLING

 

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing." THEODORE ROOSEVELT

 

"Patience and fortitude conquer all things." RALPH WALDO EMERSON

 

“Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.” ROY T. BENNETT

 

"Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time." SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR

 

"I wish you music to help with the burdens of life, and to help you release your happiness to others." LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

 

“We meet no ordinary people in our lives.” C. S. LEWIS

 

“He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan

 

“The hardest thing is maintaining your contrarian way.” Eli Pariser

 

“Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.” ARISTOTLE

 

"I’ve learned that anything in life worth having comes from patience and hard work." GREG BEHRENDT

 

“There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't even started wondering about yet.” ROALD DAHL

 

"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying." RALPH WALDO EMERSON

 

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." ALBERT EINSTEIN

 

“The path to wisdom is paved with humility.” TIM FARGO

 

"There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means." CALVIN COOLIDGE

 

“Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?” MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

 

"It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends." J. K. ROWLING

 

What he's saying: "If you want to be a success, you need a couple years," Jokić said postgame. "You need to be bad, then you need to be good. Then when you're good you need to fail. And then when you fail, you're going to figure it out."

 

"One of the greatest discoveries a person makes is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.” HENRY FORD

 

"No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm." CHARLES KETTERING

 

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." GAUTAMA BUDDHA

 

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

 

“You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.” COACH JOHN WOODEN

 

“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.” RALPH WALDO EMERSON

 

"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived." ABRAHAM LINCOLN

 

"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics." CHARLES BUKOWSKI

 

"The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members." CORETTA SCOTT KING

 

"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him." AUDREY HEPBURN

 

“It's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it.” L.M. MONTGOMERY

 

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.” GLENN CLARK

 

"Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing." LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY

 

"Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure." DHAMMAPADA

 

"The pen is mightier than the sword" EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

 

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain

 

"Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself." EPICTETUS

 

"Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly." PLUTARCH

 

Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. ' NICK CARRAWAY

 

"In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks." JOHN MUIR

 

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." ATTICUS FINCH

 

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.” BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

 

“Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose." C.S. LEWIS

 

''Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.'' GEORGE LUCAS

 

“If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.” J.M. POWER

 

''Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.'' THEOPHRASTUS

 

“No matter how busy you are, you can find some small way of making somebody’s life better."  Adam Grant

 

''All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.'' RALPH WALDO EMERSON

 

'Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.'' THEODORE ROOSEVELT

 

''The world owes you nothing because the universe has already given you everything.'' MATSHONA DHLIWAYO

 

''The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.'' DR. SEUSS

 

'THESE are the times that try men's souls.'' THOMAS PAINE

 

''I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.'' DOUGLAS ADAMS

 

''Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.'' JACOB M. BRAUDE

 

''It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.'' BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

 

“Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.” TOM LEHRER

 

''A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.'' FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

 

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward." VERNON LAW

 

"A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation." MARK TWAIN

 

"Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself." THOMAS A. EDISON

 

"Be like seeds; do not see dirt thrown at you as your enemy, but as ground to grow." MATSHONA DHLIWAYO

 

"Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need." VOLTAIRE

 

"Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one." FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

 

"If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate."

 

"Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back." THOMAS SOWELL

 

"Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody." BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

 

"Sometimes it is the quiet observer who sees the most." KATHRYN L. NELSON

 

“Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.” ALEXANDER POPE

 

“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.” VOLTAIRE

 

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” ERNEST HEMINGWAY

 

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.” DAPHNE DU MAURIER

 

"Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it. Ignorance may deride it. Malice may distort it. But there it is." WINSTON CHURCHILL

 

"My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.” JANE AUSTEN

 

"Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.” WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD

 

"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." OSCAR WILDE

 

"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves." LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

 

“It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.” CHARLES F. KETTERING

 

"Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is." HUGH MACLEOD

 

"Walking is man's best medicine." HIPPOCRATES

 

"A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there." WALT DISNEY

 

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike." JOHN MUIR

 

"Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege." EARL WARREN

 

"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there." CHARLES KETTERING

 

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” J.K. ROWLING

 

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." MARK TWAIN

 

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

 

“If you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.” MITCH ALBOM

 

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more." MELODY BEATTIE

 

Jacob Marley came and visited Scrooge. In one part, Marley states, “I wear the chain I forged in life … I made it link by link and yard by yard.” Scrooge says to Marley, “But you were always a good man of business.” “Business!” cried the Ghost, …” Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance and benevolence were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”

 

"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot." CLARENCE THOMAS

 

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

 

"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size." RONALD REAGAN

 

“The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on." CHARLES DICKENS

 

"It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it." SENECA

 

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.” MARCUS AURELIUS

 

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” ARISTOTLE

 

“The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been.” LUO GUANZHONG

 

“You are what you do, not what you say you will do.” CARL JUNG

 

“When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.” JOSEPH JOUBERT

 

“The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.” MITCH ALBOM

 

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature, and God.” ANNE FRANK

 

“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.” AYN RAND

 

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.” MITCH ALBOM

 

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

 

''I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better.'' HENRY DAVID THOREAU

 

“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity no matter how impressive their other talents.” ANDREW CARNEGIE

 

''Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.'' MARCUS AURELIUS

 

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.” BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

 

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” ALDOUS HUXLEY

 

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.” LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY

 

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

 

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” MICHELANGELO

 

"If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you." CALVIN COOLIDGE

 

"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else." BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

 

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." THOMAS JEFFERSON

 

"If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today." LOU HOLTZ

 

"You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow." HARRIET MARTINEAU

 

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” HENRY DAVID THOREAU

 

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” MARCUS AURELIUS

 

"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

 

“I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.” JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

 

"What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain." MAYA ANGELOU

 

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” HELEN KELLER

 

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." MAHATMA GANDHI

 

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“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” MILTON BERLE

 

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries." RENE DESCARTES

 

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." HENRY DAVID THOREAU

 

“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.” SENECA

 

"Apply reason to difficulties; harsh circumstances can be softened, narrow limits can be widened, and burdensome things can be made to press less severely on those who bear them cleverly." SENECA

 

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for." SOCRATES

 

“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?” MARCUS AURELIUS

 

“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” RALPH WALDO EMERSON

 

"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life." WILLIAM MORRIS

 

“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.” ARISTOTLE

 

"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."  Thomas Jefferson

 

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” MARCUS AURELIUS

 

'Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.'' EPICTETUS

 

'As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.'' ANDREW CARNEGIE

 

'People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.'' RALPH WALDO EMERSON

 

'Don't wait. The time will never be just right.'' NAPOLEAN HILL

 

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." HENRY DAVID THOREAU

 

"No man is free who is not master of himself." EPICTETUS

 

“No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." CALVIN COOLIDGE

 

"How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them." BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

 

"It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed." JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

 

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

 

“The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry” ROBERT BURNS

 

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair." C. S. LEWIS

 

"The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise." BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

 

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” RENÉ DESCARTES

 

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us." JOSEPH CAMPBELL

 

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." EDMUND BURKE

 

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

 

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." EDWARD GIBBON

 

"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds." ARISTOTLE

 

"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken." SAMUEL JOHNSON

 

“Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.” MALCOLM FORBES

 

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” CHARLES W. ELIOT

 

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. Cicero

 

"The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have." MARCUS AURELIUS

 

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” RUDYARD KIPLING

 

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.” SOCRATES

 

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither." C. S. LEWIS

 

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.'' DR. SEUSS’

 

'He who talks more is sooner exhausted.'' LAOZI

 

''In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.'' WILLIAM BLAKE

 

'Learning never exhausts the mind.'' LEONARDO DA VINCI

 

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrows good luck.'' OG MANDINO

 

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.'' WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD

 

Have I done any good in the world today? Have I helped anyone in need? Have I cheered up the sad and made someone feel glad? If not, I have failed indeed. Has anyone's burden been lighter today Because I was willing to share? Have the sick and the weary been helped on their way? When they needed my help was I there? Then wake up and do something more than dream of your mansion above. Doing good is a pleasure, a joy beyond measure, a blessing of duty and love. There are chances for work all around just now, Opportunities right in our way. Do not let them pass by, saying, "Sometime I'll try," But go and do something today.

 

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

 

Reinhold Niebuhr - God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson – He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

 

Mozart – To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

 

Arthur Ashe – Start where you are, use what you have, and do what you can.

 

Edison – Your greatest weakness lies in giving up.  The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

 

Novalis – Character and Fate are two words for the same thing.

 

Irish Prayer – May the wind be always at your back, may the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields, and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.

 

Rough seas make good sailors? Franklin D. Roosevelt.

 

Socrates - True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

 

Confucius - To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

 

Robert Frost - Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.